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🗓️ 7 December 2017
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0:33.7 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. |
0:37.3 | I'm Christopher in Taliatta. |
0:39.3 | Hospitals can be extremely noisy places. |
0:44.3 | In fact, quietness is one of the lowest rated categories on national surveys of hospital quality. |
0:50.8 | And... |
0:51.1 | The situation is getting worse rather than getting better. |
0:54.6 | Eileen Bush-Vishniak, an acoustician and president of Bayogrin consulting. |
0:59.2 | She talked about hospital noise at a session during the Acoustical Society of America meeting, |
1:03.5 | this week in New Orleans. |
1:05.4 | Bush-Fishniak says she and her colleagues have tested speech intelligibility |
1:09.1 | in hospital halls and at nurse stations, |
1:11.8 | and they found poor or marginal scores across the board. |
1:14.6 | In fact, the speech communication and noise problem is so bad that most hospitals in the U.S. |
1:22.3 | have eliminated the ability to phone in pharmaceutical orders. you now must deliver them in writing because they |
1:31.9 | were getting too many errors. So how to calm the cacophony? She suggests more closed doors to give |
1:38.0 | patients peace and quiet, or instituting or continuing so-called quiet times, when nurses interact |
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